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Fascinated by the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Our BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics with Integrated Foundation Year course combines AI with strategic business insights, preparing you for success in the data-driven global economy.
Your journey begins with an introductory foundation year, designed to develop your skills, confidence, and core knowledge in a supportive environment. This year helps you build strong academic foundations, ensuring you’re fully prepared to progress smoothly into the undergraduate degree.
This degree blends computing, business, and professional development to equip you with skills to solve complex problems and make informed decisions in dynamic environments. You’ll gain a strong foundation in business fundamentals, including marketing insights, consumer behaviour, management accounting, and finance.
You’ll also develop expertise in AI and data analytics, exploring AI foundations, machine learning, prompt engineering, and applying AI in business contexts. Alongside this, you’ll build technical skills in programming, data visualisation, and business analytics using AI tools and platforms.
Professional and enterprise development is embedded throughout, giving you opportunities to strengthen leadership and innovation skills. Operational excellence modules in project, operations, and strategic management prepare you to drive performance and efficiency within organisations.
You will also undertake a structured work placement and a final-year business project, so that you apply learning in real world contexts, enhancing your employability and professional confidence.
Professional and enterprise development is embedded throughout our BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics with IFY degree, giving you opportunities to strengthen your leadership and innovation skills. You will learn to make sense of how organisations really work and how fast-changing markets, regulation, sustainability demands, and global connections shape decisions.
Throughout the course, you will use creativity, data, and digital tools to design solutions that improve customer experience, organisational performance and community outcomes, translating insight into real service improvements.
You will also undertake a structured work placement and a final-year business project, so that you apply learning in real-world contexts, enhancing your employability and professional confidence.
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